خفتگان خاک سے استفسار
تھم ذرا بے تابی دل! بیٹھ جانے دے مجھےاور اس بستی پہ چار آ نسو گرانے دے مجھے
English translation
O My restlessness! Wait and let me rest awhile and let me shed a few tears at this habitation.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 26 in “خفتگان خاک سے استفسار” (Inquiry from the Sleepers of the Grave) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۷ / ۲۶